World Bank Assistance for Water Resources Management

This report is written to serve two purposes. It provides an evaluation of the effectiveness and relevance the World Bank's lending and non-lending activities to India as an input into the Operations Evaluation Department's (OED's) India Country Assistance Evaluation of April 23, 2001. It also provides a case study of how the World Bank's 1993 Water Resources Management Policy and Strategy has been utilized and applied among the Bank's borrowers, and this case study is part of OED's global evaluation of the Bank's experience in implementing the water policy.